Pizzazz

Pizzazz is a simple pure Ruby implementation of code coloring, but just for JSON. Basically, if you have a ruby object and want to show it converted to JSON and add HTML around it so you can color it.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pizzazz'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install pizzazz

Simple as that.

Usage

Pizzazzifing an object is simple:

object = { name: 'Sam Soffes', website: 'http://soff.es' }
Pizzazz.ify(object)

<span class="dictionary"><span class="control bracket curly opening">{</span>
<span class="control tab">  </span><span class="key-name"><span class="string key"><span class="control quote opening">"</span><span class="text">name</span><span class="control quote closing">"</span></span><span class="control colon">:</span> <span class="string"><span class="control quote opening">"</span><span class="text">Sam Soffes</span><span class="control quote closing">"</span></span></span><span class="control comma">,</span>
<span class="control tab">  </span><span class="key-website"><span class="string key"><span class="control quote opening">"</span><span class="text">website</span><span class="control quote closing">"</span></span><span class="control colon">:</span> <span class="string link"><a href="http://soff.es" rel="external"><span class="control quote opening">"</span><span class="text">http://soff.es</span><span class="control quote closing">"</span></a></span></span>
<span class="control tab"></span><span class="control bracket curly closing">}</span></span>

You can optionally limit arrays or values as well:

Pizzazz.ify(all_of_the_things, array_limit: 1, value_limit: 100)

This will add an ellipses after the first element and truncate values longer than 100 characters. You can replace the ellipses by setting the array_omission and then value_omission options:

Pizzazz.ify(all_of_the_things, array_limit: 'etc', value_omission: '... (continued)')

You can also supply prefix to add a string to the beginning of each line of the output. You can also supply class_name_prefix to prefix the classes that are generated.

By defauly, hash keys are sorted alphabetically. You can disable this with sort_keys: false.

HTML

Spans are added around various elements. Here's the classes:

• string
• constant (true or false)
• null
• number

Everything else is left alone.

If you want it wrapped in <pre class="pizzazz"> (and call html_safe if possible), do the following:

Pizzazz.ify_html(object)

By default, Pizzazz will convert any links starting with http to <a> tags. You can disable this by passing detect_links: false.

Stylesheet

If you're using the asset pipeline, you can simply require pizzazz to get my stylesheet. Be sure your <pre> has the pizzazz class. If you use ify_html it will automatically do this.

Supported Ruby Versions

Pizzazz is tested under 2.0.0, 2.2.4, JRuby 1.7.2 (1.9 mode), and Rubinius 2.0.0 (1.9 mode).

Contributing

See the contributing guide.